The Seattle City Council unanimously voted in favor of extending protections to firefighters and EMTs when responding to emergencies. FOX13
The legislation was proposed by councilmembers Lisa Herbold of District 1 and Andrew Lewis of District 7 following an alarming rise in on-the-scene assaults, threats and slurs made against firefighters responding to emergency calls.
"Assaults and threatening behavior towards our unarmed members who are simply trying to help others have become a regular and unacceptable part of these responses," said Chris Lombard, assistant chief of the Seattle Fire Department. "Our members are experiencing this with such regularity we’re starting to have trouble of even getting them to continue reporting them. They’re feeling almost hopeless in some of these regards.
"Aggressive threats to shoot us, aggressive bystanders throwing items at SFD and AMR personnel. Bystanders swinging rebar and wood sticks, patients spitting on firefighters, residents threatening firefighters with hammers, shards of glass and other tools," said Stuart. Without that protection in the law, it puts firefighters and their safety at greater risk of being attacked.
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